This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
KEYS: fix dereferencing NULL payload with nonzero length
to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
keys-fix-dereferencing-null-payload-with-nonzero-length.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 5649645d725c73df4302428ee4e02c869248b4c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 14:48:40 +0100
Subject: KEYS: fix dereferencing NULL payload with nonzero length
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 5649645d725c73df4302428ee4e02c869248b4c5 upstream.
sys_add_key() and the KEYCTL_UPDATE operation of sys_keyctl() allowed a
NULL payload with nonzero length to be passed to the key type's
->preparse(), ->instantiate(), and/or ->update() methods. Various key
types including asymmetric, cifs.idmap, cifs.spnego, and pkcs7_test did
not handle this case, allowing an unprivileged user to trivially cause a
NULL pointer dereference (kernel oops) if one of these key types was
present. Fix it by doing the copy_from_user() when 'plen' is nonzero
rather than when '_payload' is non-NULL, causing the syscall to fail
with EFAULT as expected when an invalid buffer is specified.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/keys/keyctl.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/security/keys/keyctl.c
+++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(add_key, const char __us
payload = NULL;
vm = false;
- if (_payload) {
+ if (plen) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
payload = kmalloc(plen, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!payload) {
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ long keyctl_update_key(key_serial_t id,
/* pull the payload in if one was supplied */
payload = NULL;
- if (_payload) {
+ if (plen) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
payload = kmalloc(plen, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!payload)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/keys-fix-freeing-uninitialized-memory-in-key_update.patch
queue-3.18/keys-fix-dereferencing-null-payload-with-nonzero-length.patch